Festival folk : an atlas of carnival customs and costumes
by
 
Flowers, Rob, author, illustrator.

Title
Festival folk : an atlas of carnival customs and costumes

Author
Flowers, Rob, author, illustrator.
 
Hanaor, Ziggy, author.

Summary
A beautifully illustrated compedium of weird and wonderful festival costumes around the world. All around the world there are festivals that reach back through the sands of time to the very roots of civilisation; to agrarian rites and pagan traditions. The festivals in this book are often little known outside their locale and they are all characterised by the most radical and bizarre costumes imaginable. The Kukeri in Bulgaria wear enormous headpieces made of goatskin. Burryman festival in Edinburgh features a man covered from head to toe with burrs and thorns. Paraders in Switzerland's Silvesterklausen wear vast wooden doll-masks and hats carved with peasant scenes. Each costume is brought to life in Rob Flower's joyous, surrealist, urban illustrations. Brief, engaging texts describe the festival, its history and the traditions that surround it.

General Note
Includes index.

Physical Description
96 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 26 cm.

Subject Term
Folk festivals -- Juvenile literature.
 
Festivals -- Juvenile literature.
 
Ethnic costumes -- Juvenile literature.

Author(s)
Hanaor, Ziggy,

Publisher
Cicada Books Limited,

Publication Date
2019
 
2018

ISBN
9781908714572

Publication Information
[London] : Cicada Books Limited, 2019.
 
©2018.

Call Number
J 394 FLOWERS


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33607003496000Juvenile Nonfiction394 FLOWERSChecked In